Preliminary Scientific Program
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11:00 | Registration
12:00 | Opening Ceremony
SESSION 1 • NEUROIMAGING • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
12:15 | Accepted oral presentation.
12:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
12:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
13:00 | BraYn Educational Symposium 1
13:15 | Lunch Box (1 h)
14:15 | Lucia Lisa Petrilli (Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù – IRCCS, Roma | Starting Grant 2020 Winner), Dissecting pediatric high grade-glioma through single-cell mass cytometry: from tissue to cell and back.
14:30 | Lecture • Konstantinos Ampatzis
SESSION 2 • NEUROINFLAMMATION • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
15:00 | Lecture • Adrian Liston
15:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
15:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
16:00 | Accepted oral presentation.
16:15 | BraYn Educational Symposium 2
16:35 | BraYn Educational Symposium 3
16:50 | Coffee Break mini 1
17:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
17:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
18:00 | BraYn Educational Workshop 1
18:15 | Poster session 1 (2h)
20:00 | Closing Remarks
SESSION 3 • NEUROPHYSIOLOGY & NEURAL PLASTICITY • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
9:00 | Lecture • Invited speaker
9:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
9:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
10:00 | Accepted oral presentation.
10:15 | BraYn Educational Symposium 4
10:35 | Coffee Break mini 2
11:00 | BraYn Educational Symposium 5
11:20 | Accepted oral presentation.
11:35 | Accepted oral presentation.
11:50 | Accepted oral presentation.
12:30 | Lunch box with BraYn Open Lab (1h30)
SESSION 4 • NEURO-ONCOLOGY • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
14:00 | Lecture • Michelle Monje-Deisseroth (live streaming)
14:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
14:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
15:00 | BraYn Educational Symposium 6
15:20 | Accepted oral presentation.
15:35 | Accepted oral presentation.
15:45 Coffee Break 3 with Poster Session 2 + “Lost in the protocol” session (2h)
SESSION 5 • PAEDIATRIC NEUROSCIENCE & PERINATAL NEUROLOGY • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
17:45 | Lecture • Invited speaker
18:15 | Accepted oral presentation.
18:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
18:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
20:30 | BraYn Social Dinner
SESSION 6 • NEURODEGENERATION • ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
9:00 | Lecture • Laura Ferraiuolo
9:30 | Accepted oral presentation.
9:45 | Accepted oral presentation.
10:00 | Accepted oral presentation.
10:30 | BraYn Educational Symposium 7
10:50 | Coffee Break mini 4 with Poster session 3 (1h)
11:50 | BraYn Educational Symposium 8
12:10 | Accepted oral presentation.
12:25 | Accepted oral presentation.
12:40 | Accepted oral presentation.
13:00 | Lecture • Thomas C. Südhof (Nobel Laureate), The molecular logic of synapse formation.
13:30 | Closing Remarks • BraYn Awards (Best Oral and Poster Presentation and BraYn Starting Grant)
13:00 | Registration
14:00 | Opening ceremony
14:15 | Marta Boccazzi (Starting Grant 2019 Winner), The immune-inflammatory response of oligodendrocytes in a murine model of preterm white matter injury: the role of TLR3 activation.
14:30 | Lecture • LUCAS SCHIRMER, Multilineage vulnerability and reactivity in chronic neuroinflammation.
SESSION 1 • NEUROINFLAMMATION, selected ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
15:00 – 15:15 – 15:30 | Accepted oral presentation (3)
15:45 | BraYn Educational Symposium 1
Andrea Paolillo (Merck Serono), Merck heritage and commitment in the new MS era: past, present and future.
16:05 | BraYn Educational Symposium 2
Francesca Sangalli (Sanofi), Innovation through patient needs: Bruton Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor (BTKi) development journey.
16:25 | Coffee Break mini 1
17:00 – 17:15 – 17:30 | Accepted oral presentation (3)
18:00 | BraYn Educational Workshop 1
(Beckman Coulter), Technological enhancement in Flow cytometry.
18:15 | Poster session 1 (2h)
20:00 | Closing Remarks
SESSION 2 • NEUROPHYSIOLOGY & NEURAL PLASTICITY, selected ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
9:30 – 9:45 – 10:00 | Accepted oral presentations (3)
10:15 | BraYn Educational Symposium 2
Chloè Dominici (Miltenyi Biotec), 3D analysis of neural network remodeling in pancreatic cancer.
10:35 | Coffee Break mini 2
11:00 | BraYn Educational Symposium 3
Daniela Carnevale (Becton Dickinson), Neural regulation of immunity in cardiovascular diseases.
11:20 – 11:35 – 11:50 | Accepted oral presentations (3)
12:30 | Lunch box with BraYn Open Lab (1h30)
14:00 | Lecture • ALESSANDRA PIERANI, Life and death of transient neurons in the maturation of functional and dysfunctional cortical circuits.
SESSION 3 • NEURO-ONCOLOGY, selected ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
14:30 – 14:45 | Accepted oral presentations (2)
15:00 | BraYn Educational Symposium 4
Claudia Maria Radu (Beckman Coulter) Extracellular vesicles as emerging biomarkers for diagnosis and therapy.
15:20 – 15:35 | Accepted oral presentations (2)
15:45 | Coffee Break 3 with Poster Session 2 + “Lost in the protocol” session (2h)
17:45 | Lecture • MANUEL VALIENTE, Strategies to challenge an unmet clinical need.
SESSION 4 • PAEDIATRIC NEUROSCIENCE & PERINATAL NEUROLOGY, selected ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
18:15 – 18:30 – 18:45 – 19:00 | Accepted oral presentations (4)
20:30 | BraYn Social Dinner
SESSION 5 • NEURODEGENERATION, selected ORAL COMMUNICATIONS
9:00 | Lecture • EMILIANO BIASINI, Targeting Protein Folding Intermediates in Neurodegenerative Diseases.
9:30 – 9:45 – 10:00 | Accepted oral presentations (3)
10:30 | BraYn Educational Symposium 5
Amalia Cecilia Bruni (Biogen), Alzheimer: from gene’s discovery to the first therapeutic chance.
10:50 | Coffee Break mini 4 with Poster session 3 (1h)
11:50 | BraYn Educational Symposium 6
Mara Colzani (PerkinElmer), A journey into neuroscience: how can PerkinElmer support your research?
12:10 – 12:25 – 12:40 | Accepted oral presentations (3)
13:00 | Lecture • CESARE MONTECUCCO, Neurodegeneration and Neuroregeneration in the Peripheral Nervous System.
13:30 | Closing Remarks • BraYn Awards (Best Oral and Poster Presentation and BraYn Starting Grant)
Invited Speakers
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Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
Nobel Laureate
Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology,
Howard Hughes Medical Institute,
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford (USA)
Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)
I’m a veterinarian and I have been working with laboratory animals since my PhD in zoonoses control (2010, University of Bologna). Afterwards I moved into Lab Animal Science, working with different species: mice, rats, fish (zebrafish and Nothobranchius furzerii), Xenopus, sheep, rabbits and cephalopods. I have managed animal facilities in Italy (CIBIO, University of Trento) and Czech Republic (FNUSA-ICRC, Brno). Currently, I’m the Facility Manager and Animal Care and Welfare Officer (ACWO) at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland). I’m a Board member of the European Society of Laboratory Animal Veterinarians (ESLAV).
VIB Center for Brain and Disease Research, Leuven (Belgium);
Laboratory of Lymphocyte Signalling and Development, The Babraham Institute, Cambridge (UK)
Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù, Department of Onco-haematology, Cell and Gene Therapy – IRCCS, Roma (Italy)
Stanford University
Michelle Monje, MD, PhD, is an associate professor of Neurology and Neurological Sciences at Stanford University. Dr. Monje is recognized as an international leader in the pathophysiology of glioma, especially diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG)/H3K27M-mutated diffuse midline gliomas and is a pioneer in the emerging field of Cancer Neuroscience. Her clinical focus is on childhood glial malignancies and cognitive impairment after childhood cancer therapy. Her laboratory studies neuron-glial interactions in health and disease, with a particular focus on mechanisms and consequences of neuron-glial interactions in health, glial dysfunction in cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment and neuron-glial interactions in malignant glioma. Together with these basic studies, her research program has advanced preclinical studies of novel therapeutics for pediatric high-grade gliomas and cancer therapy-related cognitive impairment in order to translate new therapies to the clinic. She has led several of her discoveries from basic molecular work to clinical trials for children and young adults with brain tumors.
Trinity College, Dublin (Ireland)
I obtained a master’s degree in Molecular Biology and a Phd in Cellular and Molecular Pathology and Biology. In 10 years of research activity at the University of Verona (Italy) I investigated the molecular mechanisms controlling leukocyte trafficking in the central nervous system during neuroinflammatory diseases such as experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis, epilepsy and Alzheimer disease.
I also studied the immuno-modulatory properties of adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells (ASCs) and ASC-derived nanovescicles in neurological diseases. I recently moved to the Trinity College Dublin (Ireland) to develop a research project investigating the metabolic regulation of adaptive immune responses.
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Milan (Italy)
Barbara Bettegazzi, 35 years old, married. I am currently working as a post doctoral researcher in Professor Grohovaz’s laboratory at San Raffaele Scientific Institute in Milan, Italy, where I obtained my PhD in Molecular Medicine in 2012. During my PhD I worked mainly on Alzheimer’s disease pathogenesis, studying the mechanisms regulating the expression and activity of BACE1, the main β-secretase of the brain. During my PhD I spent two years in Munich, in the laboratory of C. Haass, a pioneer in the Alzheimer’s disease field and our collaboration is still ongoing. More recently I shifted my research focus on studying whether alterations in the control of protein synthesis could contribute to the development of complex diseases, like Alzheimer’s disease and epilepsy.
Neuroscience Institute «Cavalieri Ottolenghi», Dept. of Neuroscience, University of Turin (Italy)
Enrica Boda, 36 years old, married. Enrica is a neurobiologist sand has just got a position as Assistant Professor in tenure track (RTD-B) in Human Anatomy at the University of Turin. She’s now working in the research group of “Physiopathology of neural stem cells” at the Neuroscience Institute of the Cavalieri Ottolenghi Foundation (NICO, Orbassano, Turin). Her studies are focused on the molecular mechanisms regulating the self-renewal and differentiation of neural progenitor cells (oligodendrocyte progenitors andneural stem cells) in health and disease, with a special focus on de-/dis-myelinating diseases, such as Multiple Sclerosis and neurodevelopmental disorders.
University of Catania (Italy)
I’m Giovanna Calabrese, I have a PhD in Medical Embryology, Pathology and Experimental Hematology. Currently, I’m a post-doc at the University of Catania, Dept. of Biomedical and Biotechnological Sciences. My main research topic is regenerative medicine and tissue engineering applied to both neural and osteo/chondral regeneration. Specifically, I’m studying the repairing capabilities of the combination between mesenchymal stem cells and 3D biomimetic materials, both in vitroand in animal models.